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Thursday, August 27, 2009

Thoughts on Dying

I am going to die.

This heart will cease to offer measure for the dance of my life.This breath will still from its long discourse with the sweet earth’s atmosphere. This mind will unravel from the lifespan coil of my story.

Yes, we are going to die. Our narration has a final page, and then a sigh perhaps, for those who enjoyed its candor – its rhythm.We are the authors of our Life’s work.Its inspiration is our contribution.I want to make mine a labor of love.I want my composition to be an original.I wish I could make it funny, but humor is not my gift.So I’m aiming for thoughtful and good natured, caring and uncompromising, compassionate and courageous.I hope the critics don’t proclaim (as they often do of creative works); “Ambitious, but falls short.”

I want to live each day in the shadow-less light of forgiveness from yesterday.At night I want to give myself over to sleep without attachment to the plot of my narration as a practice for the big ‘giving over’ that will wake me from the dream of this life.I want to help others to remember that this ‘now’ is all we have. All that 'was', has passed away. Time steals every moment from us like a little death. And that little death is followed by the new birth of the 'now'. We are reborn every instant. Forgive yourself from what has been so that you can allow the newness of the now to shine its full potential through you!The more we die to the old, the more we make way for the new. I open my eyes, like a newborn, to see... what a miracle gift each precious moment is, in this ever-changing Universe.

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About Me

I am an Ordained Interfaith Minister through the Chaplaincy Institute in Berkeley since 2009. My Ministry consists of helping others to get in touch with their own connection to source and internal compass. I have facilitated a multitude of gatherings from Movement Meditations to Dream Interpretation and Spiritual Discussion Groups to Guided Meditations. I am currently the Meditation Facilitator for Welfiit Malibu Resort and Visions Adolescent Treatment Centers. My guided meditations have been broadcast on public radio where I co-hosted a show called "Conscious Living Radio" until I moved back to L.A. Previously, I spent ten years in the healing arts as a Massage Therapist... a profound education on the soul-beauty of everyone.
This blog began as a place for my little poems, but, like me, it has evolved into a fuller expression of who I came here to be.
I am available for facilitating guided meditations for retreats or private groups.

Books by Jen:

My first book 'Life Is But A Dream' explores dream interpretation as practice for life interpretation... all things being metaphors to the soul and symbolism being the language of spirit. It can be ordered through Amazon by clicking here.

My recent work is a collection of Mystic poetry titled 'At Play In The Cosmos Of All' available here.